Britain: acceptance not integration

Stable relationships between Muslim communities and the rest of Britain were shaken by 9/11, and British Muslims suddenly felt vulnerable to negative stereotyping and even outright hostility.

by Ian Draper

THE first established pattern of migration of Muslims to Britain, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, came from the Yemen. But the largest numbers have arrived since the second world war. The Commonwealth Immigrants Act (1962) brought increased migration from Pakistan, enabling men to bring (...)